Craig Gell

Lithoscapes

Lithoscapes is a library of acoustical Impulse Responses recorded at important geological sites found within the Kent Downs AONB. At each location a recording was made of a balloon being popped. This sonic information is processed to create a reverb effect, encapsulating the acoustic space so that it can be reproduced and applied to other sounds.

Accessed through a web app, a sequencer allows the user to experience each space by playing sounds into their chosen lithoscape.

>> Go to Lithoscapes app (online version) <<

*Headphones recommended.

Photography and video footage of the sound recording process by Astrid Goldsmith. Watch a trailer here.

Lithoscapes was created for SALT + EARTH Festival, co-curated by Folkestone Fringe, Creative Folkestone and Kent Downs AONB, and exhibited at Urban Room Folkestone.

Incantations

An investigation into sounds invoked by ancient symbols and sacred geometry, exploring their mysterious energies and effects within the sonic realm.

Imogen Holst’s Kitchen / Imogen Holst’s Kitchen In Retrograde

A room tone recording made in 2019 while on artist residency at Church Walk, Aldeburgh, former home of Imogen Holst – daughter of Gustav Holst, composer, conductor, arranger, musicologist, and assistant to Benjamin Britten. The modest kitchen, where Imogen could famously ‘only cook eggs’, is set within a 1960s modernist bungalow designed by H.T. Cadbury-Brown.

Pent Happenings

In response to the question “What’s happening, exactly?” posed by Folkestone Fringe, and as part of the MagiC Carpets platform, Pent Happenings comprises a series of artworks, workshops and events drawing on geo-scientific data, field studies and research concerning Folkestone’s Pent stream and its environs.